* Crossposted in area PUBLIC_DOMAIN, NET_DEV, OS2PROG, AUST_C_HERE, BINKLEY, 
                       MSGED_ECHO, ZONE3_SYSOP

ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today I am releasing new versions of four of my works.  Got in
just in the nick of time, otherwise 1 April would have come in and
delayed release by another day.

Anyway, the products are:
MSGED/SQ 3.35
Tobruk 0.32
BTPE 3.06
OZPD 9603

Also, there is some other stuff, which wasn't released today, but 
no-one O/S has the latest versions of them:
PDPCLIB 0.07
PDCOMM 0.06
PDCRC 2.00

Note that Bob Juge, 1:106/2000 very often FREQs the latest version
of *some* of this stuff and makes it available for anonymous FTP
at juge.com (pub, incoming, os/2 or something).  So you might want 
to wait a short time and then try him before ringing me O/S.  BTW, 
I now have a V.34 modem.  The sizes of all the files are listed in 
the blurb, as well as the FREQ magic names.

I will be posting source-code changes for some of the products in
some of the echos.  Oh, and the blurb below describes the products...


This file contains a blurb on some of the products that I (Paul
Edwards) have released.  The latest versions of the files can all 
be FREQed from 3:711/934{at}fidonet by the magic name shown on the left,
e.g. "TOBRUK" to get Tobruk.  Each of these products represents
many many man-days/weeks/months of work.


TOBRUK - a Fidonet mailprocessor

- completely public domain!
- comes with complete C source code!
- C code is very portable!
- Has been compiled on OS/2 32-bit, MSDOS 16-bit, AmigaDOS and Unix!
- Capable of processing messages up to 2 gig in length, even if
  it only has a 20k buffer to work with!
- Writes to both *.MSG and Squish messagebases.
- Tests on MY config (all passthrough echos to service points)
  indicate that it is 4 times faster than Squish 1.11!
- Code compiles with virtually no warnings whatsoever!
- About 200k in size.


MSGED - a Fidonet message editor

- completely public domain!
- comes with complete C source code!
- Has been compiled on OS/2 32-bit and DOS 16-bit!
- OS/2 version is able to handle message areas with over 100,000
  messages in them!
- Message size limited only by available memory!
- Writes to both *.MSG and Squish messagebases.
- Code compiles with virtually no warnings whatsoever!
- Distinct separation of the user text from fido control lines!
- About 500k in size.


BTPE - a Fidonet front-end mailer

- freeware (except for large-scale commercial use).
- comes with complete C source code!
- Has been compiled on OS/2 32-bit and DOS 16-bit!
- Has extraneous delays removed, great for long distance calls!
- Has ability to log every incoming and outgoing character!
- Has ability to log line conditions after connect!
- Has extensive debugging information!
- Logs messages in the log down to 1/100 second!
- Based on Binkley 2.50 (non-EMSI).
- About 700k in size.


OZPD - a collection of public domain source code snippets

- completely public domain!
- mostly written in C!
- mostly portable!
- mostly useful (I use them, anyway)!
- about 100k in size.


PDCRC - public domain CRC routines

- completely public domain!
- comes with complete C source code!
- includes CRC-16, CRC-CCITT, CRC-Xmodem and CRC-32!
- includes a tutorial!
- also comes with a small utility to do all CRCs on a file.
- about 30k in size.


PDPCLIB - public domain C runtime library for OS/2

- completely public domain!
- comes with complete C source code!
- works with CSET, Watcom, Gnu and Borland!
- up to 4 times as fast as the vendor-supplied runtime library!
- about 120k in size.


PDCOMM - public domain comms routines

- completely public domain!
- comes with complete C source code!
- works for both DOS and OS/2!
- compiles with CSET, EMX, Watcom, Borland (last two DOS + OS/2).
- about 40k in size.
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